FrameThrower · Actors · Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton
4 films · 394 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1961–1998
Born 19 January 1923 · Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA · died 31 May 2013
Jean Stapleton was born Jeanne Murray in Manhattan, New York City, to Marie A. (Stapleton), an opera singer, and Joseph Edward Murray, a billboard advertising salesman. Her paternal grandparents were Irish. She was a cousin of actress Betty Jane Watson. Other relatives in show business were her uncle, Joseph E. Deming, a vaudevillian; and her brother Jack Stapleton, a stage actor. She graduated from Wadleigh High School, NYC, in 1939, and attended Hunter College. She worked as a secretary before becoming an actress. Stapleton made her stage debut at the Greenwood Playhouse, Peaks Island, Maine, in the summer of 1941, and her New York stage debut in "The Corn Is Green" (1948).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 394 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1961–1998
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series1978
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series1972
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series1971
- Jane Fonda Humanitarian Award1985
How their films are shot
Measured across 394 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jean takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 61% of their frames are day, 55% natural — the look of the work Jean takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 394 frames from Jean Stapleton's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.